FutureBoards aims to set the agenda and drive public debate on corporate governance issues. Please find some of our opinion pieces and interviews below. Feel free to share!

Paradigm shifts in the corporate world

While the challenges and opportunities of the 4th industrial revolution are still top of the agenda, geopolitical unrest, climate change and financial instability are also deeply affecting the corporate world. Hence, it is time for a discussion about the role of boards, how and to what they should contribute. For full article, please click here

Turid Solvang on Gender Quotas, BBC Radio London

Listen to BBC Radio London´s show Drivetime with Eddie Nestor where Turid Solvang discusses gender quotas in responds to BBC´s article on top 10 worst excuses for not appointing women executives given in the Hampton- Alexander Review. Tune in from 2:20:55 to 2:29:00.

Are boards on board with new realities?

In times of great uncertainty and rapid change, we need strong standards. Corporate governance codes provide good guidance. But while companies and capital markets become more and more globalized and integrated, standards for good corporate governance remain shaped by local ownership structures and founded on national legislation, culture and traditions. Read article here.

When it comes to corporate governance, a fundamental shift is emerging

“There is more focus on corporate governance and the public has new expectations to business conduct, responsiveness and responsibility. Board members, though insignificant in number, make very significant decisions on behalf of companies, and these decisions affect not only the companies and their employees and customers, but also society around them. So, more people should care about corporate governance, about who are sitting on those boards, and what they contribute.”

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...continue the dialogue. Turid Solvang, chairman, ecoDa (European Confederation of Directors Associations) In 2017 we will all question what good governance is, and how and by whom companies should be...

ACCA-ecoDa event on “Aligning Corporate Governance Culture: What´s in it for the board?”

ACCA and ecoDa organised a panel discussion in Brussels in January 2017 that conversed under the theme “Aligning Corporate Governance and Culture: What´s in it for the board?”. Turid Solvang had the honour of opening the debate. Click here to read the highlights from Turid Solvang´s speech and the other speeches. Click here to watch the event video.

Turid Solvang chats with ACCA

Turid Solvang talks about board diversity and gender quotas in Norway with ACCA. The interview is a part of ACCA´s NED and Trustee advice series.

19th European Corporate Governance Conference, panel discussion

The 19th European Corporate Governance Conference took place in Bratislava on the 27th of October 2016 under the theme “Digitalisation and Transparency- transforming the future of corporate governance”. Turid Solvang was a part of the panel discussion “Challenges for the board: remuneration and transparency”. Read the key findings from the conference here, and watch the video here (2:28:30 to 2:35:15).

Singapore Corporate Governance Week

Listen to Turid Solvang´s Opening speech at the 18th European Corporate Governance Conference where she compares corporate social responsibility with teenage sex: everybody says they do it, but very few really are. And those who do it do it rather badly.